“She looked too good on paper,” was the response from Maitland harness racing reinsman Guy Chapple when he returned to scale with Last Party after taking out the Missile Bill Barraclough Memorial at Armidale on Sunday.

“I have only had one drive here at Armidale before and that was a lot of years ago,” Chapple added.

Last Party commenced as race favourite in the tribute race to one of the club’s late stalwarts – Bill Barraclough.

“A lap to go I thought, Let’s get out of here,” said Chapple, who after racing in the one-by-one, with Limousine Livia (Lola Weidemann) leading the field, elected to make his race move as the bell sounded for the final lap.

“She is a class mare and Aaron had marked this race for her a while ago,” he said, in regards to the mare’s trainer Aaron Goadsby.

“She [Lets Party] had a couple of quite trials. We worked her last Sunday and she worked super so we thought she would be too good today.”

Last Party is trained at Singleton Heights by Aaron Goadsby who has given the four-year-old Bettors Delight mare nine starts for five wins and a placing.

The race was not without drama, with Capital Cullect (Chris Shepherdson) scratched at the start due to causing two false starts.